Adobe Premiere Elements: Should I get it?

Author: musicman
Date: 6-Jul-2007, 12:54 PM

Author: musicman
Time: 6-Jul-2007 12:54 PM
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I'm seriously considering the purchase of Premiere Elements, possibly in the bundle with Photoshop Elements. Does anyone recommend it? I was going to get Womble, but I've heard that as good as it is, it does have problems, and that Premiere would be the way to go. Any thoughts?

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Author: Knightmessenger
Time: 8-Jul-2007 12:00 PM
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I've worked with a version of Adobe Premier for video editing at school. It's similar to Sony Vegas which I have (ver 4) at home but I like Vegas a lot better. To do a cross fade with vegas, you don't need to hit a bunch of menu commands and then do it all over if you want to tweak the dissolve. Just drag one clip to overlap the other. It doesn't need to render to see the resulting effect. Much more flexible and easy to use, I even found Vegas to be easier and better than Final Cut Pro which I used at another university. Final Cut may have had more advanced features but I never got to find out as it was way too complicated just to open up the program and video files. I was surprised since I thought Mac was supposed to be more user friendly than Microsoft.
But I've heard a lot of great things about photoshop. I've never worked with it but I have used other photo editing programs before to crop, color correct and adjust brightness/ contrast.

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Author: musicman
Time: 13-Jul-2007 1:02 AM
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Yeah, that's my real concern. Am I going to have to end up getting Photoshop anyway at some point? (self-directed question) I've also heard good things about After Effects--now that may be more expensive, but is there a Sony equivalent for things like Photoshop and After Effects? One thing that would be nice about Vegas is that I'm already using Sound Forge for music editing, so they could work together more easily, I would assume.

Both options look very intriguing. Does anyone else have any comments?

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